A Minister For Ignoring Gaeltacht Affairs
Since her appointment to government office in 2014, the Fine Gael politician Heather Humphreys has gained a reputation as one of the worse minstersContinue Reading
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Bram Stoker’s Dracula, In Irish But Not Of The Irish
Mary Robinson of the Special Collections and Archives department at Maynooth University Library has published an interesting post in the lead up toContinue Reading
Saor Éire, The Mystery Of Ireland’s Trotskyist Revolutionaries
In terms of domestic Irish history Saor Éire was probably the most unusual – and controversial – left-leaning republican organisation to haveContinue Reading
The Othering Of The Irish Language And Those Who Speak It
Ursula Ní Shabhaois, writing on her blog “Ag Smaoineamh Os Ard“, reiterates a point that many choose to overlook: the linguistic andContinue Reading
The Battle of Hastings And The Irish Exile Of The English Princes
Today is the 950th anniversary of the Battle of Hastings, the military contest in the autumn of 1066 which saw England and itsContinue Reading
The Classical Greeks And The Terracotta Army Of Ancient China
I hate to invoke the dreaded term, “eurocentrism”, but one wonders if there is a slight hint of that thinking in this reportContinue Reading
The Reconstruction Of The Ballinderry Sword, A Medieval Ulfberht Blade From Ireland
An Ulfberht Sword is a modern classification for a rare type of Medieval weapon composed of high-quality steel, produced in Europe from circa 800 toContinue Reading
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Crom Cruach, The Dark God Of The Burial Mound
A guest post by Megas Begadonos of the website, Unchaining the Titan, reinterpreting for a modern audience the Medieval Irish figure of Crom Cruach,Continue Reading
Unionism’s Continued Culture War Between Settler And Native In Ireland
Back in 2013 the political theorist and author, Daniel Butt, identified three characteristics which are found in most descriptions of historical colonialism:Continue Reading
British Spies, Agents And Informers In The IRA
Last week the BBC news and current affairs programme, Spotlight, broadcast a series of interviews and dramatic reenactments with a man they calledContinue Reading
Anti-Irish Prejudice In Ireland Cannot Be Reasoned With. It Can Only Be Defeated
Over the last two decades the linguistic denigration of hibernophone sports teams and their fans by anglophone opponents has become one of the odder aspects of lifeContinue Reading
Brian Nelson, Britain’s Agent Of Terror During The Dirty War In Ireland
The British investigative journalist and author, Ian Cobain, has published a new book examining the United Kingdom’s post-WWII record of covert governmentContinue Reading
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Casting The Women Of Ireland Beyond The Ninth Wave: We Face This Land
Ireland’s indigenous literature has long regarded the ninth wave, reputedly the outermost one surrounding the shoreline of the country, as a supernatural boundary. When the invadingContinue Reading
You Cannot Hate Irish Without Hating Those Who Speak Irish
If you speak Irish in Ireland, and your children speak and are educated through Irish in Ireland, does this make you an ideological opponent ofContinue Reading
Regional Autonomy For North-East Ulster, A United Ireland For Slow Learners
As the negative effects of the successful Brexit referendum in the United Kingdom continue to ripple across this island nationContinue Reading
PSNI Chief Criticises Exaggerated Press Reports On IRA Criminality
The Assistant Chief Constable of the PSNI, the UK paramilitary police force in the north-east of Ireland, has rebuked the Irish and BritishContinue Reading
Beating The English Language Into The Irish, Quite Literally
Following on from reports that an Irish-speaking employee was forced from his job at a business in Cork because of management demands thatContinue Reading
Researchers Are Convinced That The Grolier Codex Is A Genuine Mayan Book
After years of doubt and uncertainty researchers investigating the authenticity of the Grolier Codex, a pre-Columbian “book” initially dated to the 13th century CE, have concluded that the artefactContinue Reading
History Is Written By The Victors, Even When They Lose
The common maxim, “history is written by the victors“, is a favourite one among writers and journalists trying to elucidate the contested pasts of colonisedContinue Reading
Britain’s Toxic Nationalism Threatens Peace In Ireland. And Europe
The Belfast or Good Friday Agreement of April 1998, which ended three decades of open conflict in the British-administrated north-east of Ireland, actually consistsContinue Reading
Ze’ev Jabotinsky: The Iron Wall – We and the Arabs
On the 4th of November 1923 the Jewish-Russian newspaper Rassvet (“Dawn”) published a short essay by the conservative Zionist writer Ze’ev JabotinskyContinue Reading
British Spies To Continue Mass Surveillance Operations In Ireland And Elsewhere
The United Kingdom’s state intelligence agencies have been given the green light to continue their mass spying operations around the world followingContinue Reading
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